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@threat @dcc @0 @ins0mniak
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1/ Two more incidents have been reported of Russians being fined or denounced for association with the colours of blue and yellow – Ukraine's national colours. They include a journalist who was denounced for being photographed in a yellow jacket against a blue sky. ⬇️

Thank you for your sacrifice, Martyr Helicopter.

Could/Would you use this keyboard with these keycaps?

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🇮🇷 Iranian media has confirmed the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, aged 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian following a helicopter crash in the country's mountainous province of East Azerbaijan.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48

Cross-platform native C executables? Sweet.

"Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable."

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

#c #gcc #clang #polyglot #posix #crossplatform #cosmocc #libc #linux #windows #mac #macos #netbsd #bios

#Fedivision is an annual contest between amateur songwriters with ActivityPub accounts. It's loosely modeled on Eurovision. This year there are 72 entries, and voting is now open until next Sunday.

Anyone with an ActivityPub account (that's you, dear reader) can vote for up to three entries. Learn how to vote at https://fedivision.party/vote/

You can hear the songs at https://fedivision.party and there's a popup channel on Radio Free Fedi playing entries: https://party.radiofreefedi.net/

most underrated text editor: micro

@newt
I do use syntax highlighting, but mine is still rather tame and I'm fine without it, to me it's more like "If it's there — why not?"
And I'm not really into color diversity myself, I even use Dark Reader to tone the colors down in Firefox. And yet, monochrome doesn't have to be black and white, I for one use shades of gray and greenish yellow 🤷
@sun

Also excellent tips for parents. Let your children be lost for a bit! Leave room for them to grow and accomplish things!

The http://matrix.org homeserver has been struggling with load over the last 24h (thanks perhaps to Slack for driving users our way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/) - we're working on fixing performance. Folks on other homeservers are of course unaffected. Apologies for the inconvenience. https://status.matrix.org is tracking the incident.

@astrid
> $command --help
Successfully created new thing "--help"

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in a hypothetical where we could figure out a non-ecocidal machine learning language model:

there's one ability that this technology has that's genuinely novel, and it's human language syntax. you can't trust the semantics or paradigmatics; unlike humans, these machines have no world model and no consciousness, so they're incapable of understanding and their output can't ever be trusted. however, human syntax is a much harder problem than most people give credit for, and it is impressive that you can hold a conversation with these elizas and the syntax is, to a large degree, turing-passable.

what is a practical use for a chatterbox that speaks nonsense but in linguistic syntax? one thing that comes to mind is language learning. now, current LLMs are of limited usefulness for this use because their conversation isn't just nonsensical, it's also exceptionally bland and the opposite of engaging. (besides, you know, the fact that you have to harm and exploit thousands to even use them). tools like character.ai seem to be an attempt at improving that, but due to limitations of the datasets and of corporatespeak limiters, every character sounds the same.

if we had a functional linguistic model that could be trained and run in a standard laptop with no more input than a few books, maybe we could produce chatterboxes actually able to sound like characters in a novel. and due to people's attachment to these characters, maybe talking to them would feel engaging enough that you would want to do it, even despite the absence of a world model or persistent context. then the unsolvable hallucination problem wouldn't matter; all that you need is to produce interactions that are 1) syntactically correct, 2) intelligible and 3) engaging, and you'd have a language acquisition app that (by contrast with flashcards, SRS etc.) would be actually useful.

but given the current requirements to produce and use an LLM, the most economical and practical language interaction device remains "another human".